5811. Adulteration of eggs. B. S. * * * v. SOO Cases &f Eggs. Consent 
decree o>€ eondemnatioM. and forfeiture. Good portion released on 
payment of the costs. Unfit portion ordered to »e nsed four tanning 
purposes only. (F. & D. No. 8280. I. S. Nos. 12271-m, 12272-m. S. No. 
C-698.)
On June 25, 1917,, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 800 cases, each containing SO dozen eggs, remaining unsold in 
the original unbroken packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had 
been shipped on or about June 19, 1917, by A. B. Walker & Sons., Chicago, Ill,, 
and transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the. libel for the reason that it 
consisted in'whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal sub- 
stance.
On July 10, 1917, the said A. B. Walker & Sons and H. H. Bergman, St. 
Louis, Mo., claimants, having filed their answer and claim, and the case hav- 
ing come on for final disposition, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 
was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the portion of the product 
found fit for food by representatives of this department should be released to 
said claimants upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings, and that the 
unfit portion should be cracked or otherwise treated so as to prevent its use as 
a food and released to claimants to be used for tanning purposes only.
GAEL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.